Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyhoodane, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyhoodane
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.56340, -8.48167
- SMR number
- LI023-324----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In low-lying, wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, 40m W of a stream which also marks the townland boundary with Doonvullen Lower. Conjoined with ringfort (LI023-043----) to ESE and an enclosure (LI023-167----) lies 35m to N. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 174.1: AP 4/3711). Monument is visible as a circular-shaped cropmark (diam. 30m E-W; 28.5m N-S) on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 06/02/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage 06/02/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 174.1.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 14 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.